Per Ed Henry at CNN, the McCain campaign has quietly asked the Vice President — compared to whom President Bush is wildly popular — not to attend the Republican convention in St. Paul next month. Shocking, I know. To the dismay of some on the campaign, they couldn’t disinvite the President, too. Instead, Bush will speak on the first night of the convention — Labor Day — and leave town. It’s likely McCain himself won’t arrive in St. Paul before Tuesday, Sept. 2, thereby preventing any chance that the President and his would-be GOP successor might be caught in the same photo frame together.
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